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Contains more than 55,000 video testimonies of survivors and witnesses of genocide. The interviews have been conducted in 65 countries and 45 languages. Testimonies have index terms at one-minute segments. Initially a repository of Holocaust testimony, the Visual History Archive has expanded to include testimonies from the Armenian Genocide that coincided with World War I, the 1937 Nanjing Massacre in China, the Cambodian Genocide of 1975-1979, the Guatemalan Genocide of 1978-1983, the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, the war and genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1992-1995, and the ongoing conflicts in the Central African Republic and South Sudan, and anti-Rohingya mass violence of August-October 2017. It also includes testimonies about contemporary acts of violence against Jews.